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What Links To Ad No-Follow to on Your Site..

by SladeK
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In my keyword and competition research, I have come across a number of sites that have no-follow added to sidebar links, footer links, as well as affiliate banner links. To an extent I can understand affiliate links; but is it necessary to make sidebar links to inner pages, footer links to about/contact/etc no-follow?

I hadn't really thought about it much up till today.
#links #nofollow #site
  • Profile picture of the author TimScott
    IMO i only add no-follow to outgoing sites, like if i'm linking to Wikipedia in a blog post, i'll add no follow, but Google still appreciates the link to a relevant source. I always no-follow all my blog comments as well, for obvious reasons. But as far as all the pages on your site, just let the link juice flow evenly, some people may say don't for disclaimer, and TOS pages...but i do, and it hasn't hurt me one bit. Matt Cutts has a great article about this, that should answer your question PageRank sculpting
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  • Profile picture of the author paulgl
    There is no reason to nofollow any links on your page.
    Google is not dumb enough to include privacy pages in
    any searches. I don't want google to ignore any of
    my sites.

    Besides, nofollow has nothing to do with indexing or crawling.

    That's not what nofollow is for.

    Use the noindex. But even then, there is no reason to do
    that either. If you really want google to not index a page,
    that's what do go for.

    Seriously, the nofollow is an epidemic.

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    • Profile picture of the author Claude5670
      No-Follow links were first presented by Google in a means of telling Google bots that they were paid links.

      This was very well announce years ago about five to six months after that announcement web sites that had paid links which did not use the no follow attribute were severely penalized.

      Google does follow no-follow links the name might of misguided many people to think otherwise. It should've been called.
      "somebody paid for this link so don't trust it for ranking purposes-follow"

      the Google bots still follow the link, and make their own judgment.

      Some people using this no-follow in the navigation think that they are creating some type of Silo structure for their site, but in effect, they are only telling Google that somebody paid for the link, so don't trust it.

      This was all well explained in Google's Web masters guides a long time ago. I don't know where the confusion came in, I believe it's the name "no-follow"
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  • Profile picture of the author Trent Brownrigg
    I sometimes put it on links to the privacy policy, disclosure, and other pages like that. But I agree with Paul in saying there's really no reason to put it on any links to pages on your own site.
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  • Profile picture of the author digital29
    Usually people put a lot of nofollow links, because the do follow ones will have more value. A page's value is transmitted into the do follow links..the fewer you have, the more value they have
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